Harish Meena

Harish Chandra Meena is an Indian Politician from the state of Rajasthan.

Harish Chandra Meena was born on 5 September 1954 in Bamanwas, Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan to Shri.

Narayan Meena and Smt.

Narayani Devi.

He completed Bachelors of Political Science Honors in Rajasthan University.

He went to Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) for his Masters in Political Science.

During his final year of Masters he got through Indian Police Service.

He is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of 1976 batch and former Director General of Police (DGP).

After becoming the IPS Officer in 1976, he was posted in Kharagpur, West Bengal Cadre for 3 years and then later he came to Rajasthan.

Following are the details on his posting:

He has also been awarded the 1996 Indian Police Medal and 2002 President Medal.

Harish Chandra's Meena's main focus for constituency development is education.

More than 70% of his local area development fund is spent on education.

His key efforts include establishing 2 central schools, setting up India's only Rural Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra and launching his own flagship program for girl child development.

In 1996, he was awarded the Indian Police Medal and in 2002, he was awarded the President's Medal for his distinguished service.

Harish Meena reformed the recruitment process of Police Constables in Rajasthan by making it more objective and transparent.

In a bid to minimize corruption and biases, he completely removed written tests involving subjective answers, observation based physical examinations and personal interviews.

Consequentially, Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) based written tests and objective physical examinations were introduced.

The latter required each candidate to run 10 km in 60 minutes to qualify.

To completely eradicate the scope of manipulation, a GPS chip was attached on the leg of the candidate.

There was widespread criticism and skepticism towards this change.

However to demonstrate the feasibility of the new physical tests, Mr. Meena himself started running in all recruitment centers.

He completed the 10 km run within 48 minutes in Kota, 12 minutes ahead of the qualifying time.

This recruitment pattern was also emulated by various states, Para Military and Armed Forces.

As a break from the convention, police recruitment process during Harish Meena's tenure as DGP was never challenged in court.

Harish Meena also focused on improving the track record of Rajasthan police in matters pertaining to human rights.

He passed a standing order that stated that the whole police station would be liable to face a punishment posting if there was any death in the custody including suicide.

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Director General was created to overlook a cell that specially monitored crimes against the vulnerable sections of the society which included schedule tribes, schedule castes, women and children.

He served as DGP of Rajasthan from March 2009 to December 2013 which is recorded to be IUI the longest tenure of a DGP in Rajasthan.

He also set up 3 independent institutions; Police University (Sardar Patel Police University 2012), Training Institute for Rajasthan Police Intelligence Branch and Commando Training Institute.

Village Guard System was introduced in rural area.

Police housing Scheme was accelerated and Police Housing Corporation was created.

Police Commissionerate System was introduced for the first time in Rajasthan in Jaipur and Jodhpur.

Separate wings of law-order and investigation were introduced.

His last assignment was secretary (security) Cabinet Secretariat in Govt.

of India.

Harish Meena entered politics and joined BJP in 2014.

He was a Member of Parliament of the 16th Lok Sabha from the constituency of Dausa, Rajasthan.

He has been associated with Bharatiya Janata Party and currently (as of 2020) Indian National Congress.